티재

To steal someone else's post valor for a minute, the etymology of the word "wizard" is actually "wise" plus the suffix "-ard", the pejorative agent suffix. AKA "-ard" is more or less the same as "-er" (weaver, gamer, baker) but it adds pejorative connoations: you're acknowledging they're whatever they are but you're also judging the shit out of them for it.

This is a funny way of looking at the word wizard but I want to propose we need to expand modern "-ard" usage beyond funny old-timey words like drunkard. It's a simple, easy to use suffix to indicate when you're talking about the people who you kinda wish would not!

• shopper (someone shopping at a store) vs shoppard (Black Friday customer)
• ERPer (horny roleplayer) vs ERPard (textual sex pest)
• streamer (does stuff where people can watch) vs streamard (keeps posting in chat to come watch their stream while you are participating in the thing they are streaming come on dude)

old: “rockstar developer (derogatory)”

bold: “programmard”

Good news out of the UK: court confirms "sweat of the brow" copies of public domain works aren't eligible for copyright. For years, UK museums have been asserting they own the rights to the photos and scans they've taken of the public domain materials in their collections, and charging licensing fees for using those reproductions. Since the original materials are in their collections, and they won't allow other people to make their own license-free copies, they effectively enclosed the public domain works back in copyright. The court has struck that down with an interpretation of the UK's 2009 copyright law which states that that kind of mechnical reproduction isn't eligible for any form of copyright protection at all.